Word: fewest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists. But that large sector of U. S. citizens which exalts the House over the Senate, which praises its "businesslike" method of legislative procedure, glowed with fresh admiration as it observed a tight little political autocracy make the fewest necessary concessions to muster a party majority behind its economic will and then, under a special rule, impel the measure through to passage...
...were gratified to discover that, invariably, as the number and intensity of sunspots increased, radio reception grew worse, until, at the peak of the period of sun spot activity, called the Sunspot Maximum, the radio signals reached their weakest point. Likewise, when the spots on the sun were fewest and weakest, the radio reception was best. For the measurement of radio reception we have made use of a superhetrodyne receiver with multiple stage amplification together with a self-recording galvanometer. A local oscillator with controlled output makes possible the exact calibration of the entire receiving circuit prior to each night...
...went to many private dinners in all parts of the country, and with only one exception-in Chicago-I never saw a prohibition table. I went to cocktail parties attended by State officials, United States legislators, judges, college presidents, by-it seems ridiculous to enumerate them. With the fewest possible exceptions, they all drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will...
Suicides are fewest in physically comfortable weather. Most happen...
...general the Dartmouth athletic body has shown good judgment. It has accepted the most important suggestion, has admitted an open question and possible need for action in regard to the second in importance, and has turned down the one which remedied the lesser evil and which gave fewest indications of a practical improvement. Every revolutionary plan can stand some modification, the danger always being that the modifying process completely devitalize the original. The result in this case still retains much of its former power along with a few valuable additions...